Attachment with God, wk 2 (Anxious Attachment)

Continuing our look at how Attachment Science can help us improve our relationships with God, Hayley and Vince turn our focus to anxious insecure attachment. (Art by Laura Porter for verywell.com)

Matthew, PsalmsVincent BrackettMay 6, 2025Attachment With GodComment

Attachment with God, wk 1 (Shut-down Attachment)

We begin our look at how the framework of Attachment Science can help us improve our images of God, and, in turn, our relationships with God. First up, a focus on shut-down (or avoidant) insecure attachment with God.

John, PsalmsVincent BrackettApril 29, 2025Attachment With GodComment

Easter Reflection

We can tell intuitively that the most dominant stories framing our lives everyday are too empty and too unjust to be what life is all about. AND we can also tell intuitively when a story comes along that does capture what life is all about! Vince presents the New Testament's story of The Resurrection as one such story...

1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Acts, Luke, DanielVincent BrackettApril 22, 2025Comment

Give up Nihilism For Lent

In the face of hopelessness, is there only strength and weakness? Are values and virtue not worth standing for? Vince closes our effort to give up “giving up” (for Lent) with some encouragements beyond our modern pulls toward nihilism. (Art by Morgan Sorensen @see_machine)

1 Corinthians, Romans, EcclesiastesVincent BrackettApril 15, 2025Lent 2025Comment

Give up "Pure" Community for Lent

What do we do when we know we need communities and institutions to lean on, but they let us down? Hayley and Vince continue our Lenten tradition of giving up (for Lent) hidden beliefs that cause us to give up. (Art: Ethiopian Icon of Jesus washing disciples' feet)

Ecclesiastes, JohnVincent BrackettApril 8, 2025Lent 2025Comment

Give up "it all comes down to me" for Lent

Continuing our Lenten tradition of giving up hidden beliefs that aren't serving us, Vince explores how basically all working people today end up believing "it all comes down to me", and offers the story of Jesus being tempted in the desert as inspiration to not give up. (Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash)

1 Corinthians, Matthew, EcclesiastesVincent BrackettApril 1, 2025Lent 2025Comment

Give up Performing Your Self for Lent

This week, for our Lenten tradition of giving up hidden beliefs that aren't serving us, we're finding language for our numbness in the book of Ecclesiastes, and finding help for our weary, modern "selves" in the stories of Jesus' healings.

Ecclesiastes, JohnVincent BrackettMarch 25, 2025Lent 2025Comment

Give up the “Just World” Theory for Lent

For our BLC Lenten tradition, join us in giving up hidden beliefs we hold (religious and secular) that aren't serving us. This week: how the Hebrew Bible's Ecclesiastes captures our modern feelings of meaninglessness when we unconsciously believe everyone gets what they deserve.

Ecclesiastes, Matthew, LukeVincent BrackettMarch 18, 2025Lent 2025Comment

Ash Wednesday Devotion

The modern world doesn't stop for a random Wednesday in the Church Calendar. If you're on the go, let us help you mark Ash Wednesday with this guided prayer.

Vincent BrackettMarch 5, 2025Comment

Good Doubt / Better Theology (wk 4: Spirit & Flesh)

Hayley and Vince re-load a Bible study on the oft-misused references to spirit and flesh in the New Testament, as they continue modeling the use of two strategies for cultivating life-giving faith in the face of modern confusion, injustice, and burnout.

1 Corinthians, Romans, MatthewVincent BrackettMarch 4, 2025Good Doubt-Better TheologyComment